A Whistle in the Dark (Company Theatre);. Playboy of the Western World (Shaw
Festival);. Hamlet and Great Expectations (Soulpepper). Oliver was a series ...
the flood thereafter Cast Oliver Becker Georges
Oliver is a Dora Award nominee and a veteran of both stage and screen. His previous Canadian Stage credits include The Weir, The Pillowman, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Dora Award nomination). He has spent three seasons at the renowned Stratford Festival with the following selected credits: Richard III, Hosanna, Peter Pan, Macbeth, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Other stage credits include RED (Belfrey Theatre/MTC); God of Carnage (Vancouver Playhouse/MTC); A Whistle in the Dark (Company Theatre); Playboy of the Western World (Shaw Festival); Hamlet and Great Expectations (Soulpepper). Oliver was a series regular for the television show Rent-A-Goalie and The Line and has co-starred in episodes of Republic of Doyle, Lost Girl, and King among others.
Kevin MacDonald Denis
Originally from Vancouver, Kevin has worked for companies such as The Playhouse, Rumble, Pi, NeWorld, Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, ATP, NAC, Soulpepper and Canadian Stage. Kevin was last seen in Toronto as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Banquo in Macbeth at Shakespeare in High Park. Often involved in new work, Kevin has participated in over 60 workshops and readings of new work at The Playhouse, The Banff Centre, Tarragon and ATP among others. Kevin was a member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy and completed the Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre. Kevin has been nominated a number of times for his work as both an actor and a designer. He has appeared in a number of indie films and in the television series Cold Squad, Murdoch Mysteries, Cracked and The Listener. Kevin is a graduate of Studio 58. www.kevinmacdonald.ca
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster June
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a stage and screen actor. Originally from Nova Scotia, she has performed in venues across the country. Some of her favourite theatre credits include: The Barber of Seville, The Crucible, The Royal Comedians, Dirt (Soulpepper); The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw (Summerworks); As You Like It (Blue Bridge Repertory); Pride and Prejudice (Citadel); Macbeth: Nach Shakespeare (Theatre Conspiracy/Gasheart); The Wild Party (PintSize Tall); Hamlet (Honest Fishmongers); and Tough! (Festival Antigonish). She is a graduate of the UBC BFA Acting Program, the Citadel/ Banff Professional Theatre Program, and the Soulpepper Academy.
Patricia Marceau Grace
Patricia has performed across Canada, China and in Moscow. Theatre credits include: Albertine en cinq temps (Dora nomination), Apocalypse à Kamloops (TfT/La Catapulte); Des fraises en janvier, L’Avare, Portrait chinois d’une imposteure, Le Visiteur, Le Mariage forcé et La Critique de l’École des femmes (Théâtre français de Toronto); The Post Office (Pleiades); Coeur de chien (TfT/Pleiades); Chekhov’s Shorts (Theatre-Smith Gilmour). Directing credits include: Afghanistan (La Catapulte); Je serai toujours là pour tetuer (Cassis Productions). Film and TV credits include: Météo+, Flashpoint, Regenesis, Mordu, Wild Card, Le Canada: Une histoire populaire, The Red Green Show and Traders.
Maggie Huculak Penelope
Maggie Huculak has been performing on Canadian stages for over thirty years. Most recent theatrical credits include the national and international tour of Half Life, Tout Comme Elle and Divisidero (Necessary Angel); Antigone, Travesties, A Christmas Carol and The Wild Duck (Soulpepper); The Woman in White (Theatre Aquarius); Age of Arousal (Nightwood); 4:48 Psychosis (Summerworks); The Clean House, The Glass Menagerie, Elizabeth Rex and The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (Globe Theatre). TV and film credits: (recurring series) Puppets Who Kill, Wind at My Back, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Eric’s World and Queer as Folk. She is a six-time Dora nominee, receiving a Dora Award for Mein (co-author) and a Chalmer’s Award for Betrayal (co-author). Maggie was the sole narrator of the epic CBC documentary series Canada: A People’s History.
W Joseph Matheson Homère
Canadian Stage debut. Other theatre credits include: Legally Blonde (Neptune); Assassins (MTC); Jersey Boys (Toronto); Music Man, Moby Dick (Stratford); Counsellor at Law, On the Town (Shaw); Ragtime (1st US Tour); Pippin (Emelin Theatre, NY); Annie (Carousel Theatre, OH); Italian Funerals and Other Festive Occasions (Drayton); Sound of Music (Persephone). Joe has also written and performed: Sketching Sunshine, a one man show about Stephen Leacock (Theatre Orangeville); Hank Williams LIVE – 1952 (across Canada); and Could You Wait?, a wartime romance (Theatre Orangeville; Grand Theatre, London). Next up: Rooster in Annie (YPT) which he gets to do with his gorgeous wife! Je t’aime darlin’.
the flood thereafter Creative Sarah Berthiaume Playwright
Sarah Berthiaume graduated as an actor from the Lionel-Groulx Theatre Program in 2007. Sarah is a writer and actor. The first play she wrote, Le déluge après (The Flood Thereafter), was awarded the Égrégore prize in 2006 and selected by the SACD for a public reading at the prestigious Festival d’Avignon. It was then staged in 2008 at the Rubrique Theatre in Jonquière. The English translation by Nadine Desrochers was produced in October 2011 by Talisman Theatre at La Chapelle, in Montreal. Sarah has written numerous other plays, including Disparitions, Villes Mortes, P@ndora, and Yukonstyle. She was most recently a part of the iShow, a multimedia piece presented as part of Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto.
Bonnie Beecher Lighting Designer
Bonnie has designed lights for over 160 productions in theatre, opera and dance with companies that include American Ballet Theatre, The National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company, Shaw Festival, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, New Zealand Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Jorgen, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Opera Atelier, Opera Lyra, Pacific Opera Victoria, The National Arts Centre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Ballet Mannheim and Glimmerglass Opera. Bonnie lives in Toronto with her husband Glenn Davidson and sons Oliver and Jacob. Bonnie is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.
Nadine Desrochers Translator
Nadine is a professor, dramaturg, and translator from Montreal. From 2001 to 2006, she worked at the Centre des auteurs dramatiques, overseeing translations in French, English, and Spanish. Her translation credits include Marilyn Perreault’s Rock, Paper, Jackknife…, Suzie Bastien’s The Medea Effect, Isabelle Hubert’s Gulnara’s Dress and Scenes from a Tree, a children’s production by Des mots d’la dynamite. Nadine also translated Heather Hermant’s ribcage: this wide passage to French. She has translated four plays by Sarah Berthiaume, two of which (The Flood Thereafter and Yukonstyle) are part of Canadian Stage’s 2013.2014 season. She is currently working on the translation of the play Billy (The Days of Howling) by Fabien Cloutier (nominated for a Governor General’s Award), to be produced by Talisman Theatre in 2014.
John Gzowski Sound Designer
John Gzowski is a musician and composer who’s done a lot of shows. He’s won a bunch of Dora Awards, lost a few more but is generally happiest when you don’t notice the sound and music at all, because that means it fits the production. But don’t go and try not to listen to it, just enjoy the show and see what happens. For Canadian Stage he’s broken celery and danced onstage for It’s A Wonderful Life (so well he won a Dora Award), worked on Cruel and Tender, Clean House and a couple of other ones. If you really want the long list of shows, check www.johngzowski.com.
Ker Wells Director
Prior to entering the York University/Canadian Stage MFA program in Stage Direction, Ker Wells was a founding member of Primus Theatre (19891997) and Number Eleven Theatre (1998-2006). Original works as a director include Icaria, The Prague Visitor and The Curious History of Peter Schlemihl. Other work as a performer and creator includes The Confessions of Punch and Judy, Living Tall and Swimmer (68). As an actor, director and teacher Wells has toured across Canada, and to the U.S., Mexico, and Europe. Previously for Canadian Stage Wells directed Macbeth for Shakespeare in High Park in the summer of 2013. Struck, an original performance he directed with New York’s NACL Theatre, will run at HERE Arts in NYC in December. In January he will take up a post as associate professor in the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
Sandy Plunkett Stage Manager
For Canadian Stage: Stage Manager: Macbeth, THIS, The Test (with The Company Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet. Assistant Stage Manager: The Game of Love and Chance, The Cosmonaut’s last message... Selected credits elsewhere include: Yichud (seclusion) (Theatre PasseMurialle/Convergence); The Silicone Diaries (Buddies in Bad Times); Through the Leaves (The Company Theatre). Sandy is the great-grandson of Morley Plunkett of the almost forgotten WW1 Canadian Vaudeville Troupe, The Dumbells.
Yannik Larivee Set and Costume Designer
Selected production credits include: Die Fledermaus (Nurenberg Staatstheater); Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Opéra National du Rhin); Offenbach’s BarbeBleue (Opera Zuid in the Netherlands); Tancredi (Canadian Opera Company); 4:48 Psychosis (Necessary Angel); Watch Her, Wolf’s Court and Monument (National Ballet of Canada); Dangerous Liaisons, The Odd Couple, Houdini, Amadeus, I Am My Own Wife and Hedda Gabler (Montreal’s Segal Theatre); Past Perfect, John & Beatrice and Wild Mouth (Tarragon Theatre); Vida (Royal Alexandra Theatre and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana); One of Three (American Ballet Theater); Dreamland (Royal Swedish Ballet); Castle Nowhere (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Soulpepper).
Ashley Westlake Assistant Stage Manager
Canadian Stage credits include Assistant Stage Manager: Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in High Park); Apprentice Stage Manager: The Middle Place (with project humanity), That Face and The List (with Nightwood Theatre). Other theatre credits include Stage Manager: Little One (Theatre Crisis/Tarragon Theatre), Between the Sheets (Nightwood Theatre); Assistant Stage Manager: The Penelopiad (Nightwood Theatre).
